Ubiquitous
2013-01-11 10:39:37 UTC
This may be the oddest lead paragraph we've ever read, even in the New
York Times:
On Tuesday morning, commentary on the broadcast of the Bowl
Championship Series national title game between Alabama and
Notre Dame included words like "creepy," "awkward,"
"uncomfortable" and "heteronormative."
What set off the controversy? "Comments made during the game by the ESPN
play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger regarding the girlfriend of
Alabama quarterback A J McCarron":
In the first quarter, ESPN showed McCarron's girlfriend,
Katherine Webb, who was sitting near his parents. Musburger
called the 23-year-old Webb, a former Miss Alabama USA, a
"lovely lady" and "beautiful," and said to his broadcast
partner, Kirk Herbstreit, a former quarterback at Ohio State,
"You quarterbacks get all the good-looking women."
"A J's doing some things right," Herbstreit replied. Musburger,
73, then said, "If you're a youngster in Alabama, start getting
the football out and throw it around the backyard with Pop."
"It was kind of nice," the Times quotes Webb as saying to the Associated
Press. "I didn't look at it as creepy at all. For a woman to be called
beautiful, I don't see how that's an issue."
Neither do we, but the Times manages to find a "chairwoman" of a
"journalism department" called Jennifer Greer, who complains that
"football is a male domain," and that complimenting Miss Webb "reinforces
this stereotype of the hot model girlfriend attached to a quarterback and
the maleness of sports that is hard for serious female athletes."
OK, we've heard that women are from Venus, but these people are from
another galaxy. "Heteronormative" should have been a tip-off. Such a word
is not of the Earth.
York Times:
On Tuesday morning, commentary on the broadcast of the Bowl
Championship Series national title game between Alabama and
Notre Dame included words like "creepy," "awkward,"
"uncomfortable" and "heteronormative."
What set off the controversy? "Comments made during the game by the ESPN
play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger regarding the girlfriend of
Alabama quarterback A J McCarron":
In the first quarter, ESPN showed McCarron's girlfriend,
Katherine Webb, who was sitting near his parents. Musburger
called the 23-year-old Webb, a former Miss Alabama USA, a
"lovely lady" and "beautiful," and said to his broadcast
partner, Kirk Herbstreit, a former quarterback at Ohio State,
"You quarterbacks get all the good-looking women."
"A J's doing some things right," Herbstreit replied. Musburger,
73, then said, "If you're a youngster in Alabama, start getting
the football out and throw it around the backyard with Pop."
"It was kind of nice," the Times quotes Webb as saying to the Associated
Press. "I didn't look at it as creepy at all. For a woman to be called
beautiful, I don't see how that's an issue."
Neither do we, but the Times manages to find a "chairwoman" of a
"journalism department" called Jennifer Greer, who complains that
"football is a male domain," and that complimenting Miss Webb "reinforces
this stereotype of the hot model girlfriend attached to a quarterback and
the maleness of sports that is hard for serious female athletes."
OK, we've heard that women are from Venus, but these people are from
another galaxy. "Heteronormative" should have been a tip-off. Such a word
is not of the Earth.
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The old Soviet leaders had it right. Our destruction comes from within:
Moochers, parasites, and Obama.
The old Soviet leaders had it right. Our destruction comes from within:
Moochers, parasites, and Obama.